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One thread per person please. Feel free to share with us your photos and video clips from your gigs, jams, rumbas, etc etc. No random clips or images, this is a section for our members to post up and promote their own projects and adventures.

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One thread per person please. Feel free to share with us your photos and video clips from your gigs, jams, rumbas, etc etc. No random clips or images, this is a section for our members to post up and promote their own projects and adventures. Lets keep it positive.

I am playing congas, I recorded the conga track in my basement studio with 2 SM57s into an RME Babyface, on top of the backing and vocal tracks in ProTools 10 on an old Macbook. Backing track by Frankie P, all vocals by Camille Safiya, the audio was mixed by Gonzalo Contreras in Premier Studios NYC, videography by Alfredo Lavergne "Fred Focus". We performed this tune at a block party in Washington Heights yesterday, she sang and I played congas, with this audio as the backing track.

Bump. Come to SOBs tomorrow and check us out. PS It seems I often post right before the time at which the forum wipes out posts for the day and starts the new day. Hopefully this will stay posted longer than the half hour or so that it stayed last night.

Sometimes I get on a kick where I push my kids a little too much towards what I think they should be, this is an awesome example. So next time my 9 year old girl tells me she wants to be a baker (God damn Food Network), I will not trip-out and tell her she needs to use those same skills and be a chemist.

Well we opened tonight at SOBs with 4 tunes, got another standing ovation, this time half the crowd was our family, friends and coworkers and everyone was standing to avoid the $15 minimum at the tables...They did like it though, and lots of people I didn't know were clapping.

It is definitely worth it to support your kids' aspirations, whether they want to become musicians, chemists, bakers, or even rumber@s. Well, maybe not rumber@s. Anyway, it felt great when she announced me as her father on congas.

jorge wrote:It is definitely worth it to support your kids' aspirations, whether they want to become musicians, chemists, bakers, or even rumber@s. Well, maybe not rumber@s. Anyway, it felt great when she announced me as her father on congas.

Tremenda rumba tonight at the Zinc Bar. Roman Diaz, Pedrito Martinez, Joaquin Pozo, Diosvany Valladares, Clemente Medina, Alfredo Diaz Pescao, Reinaldo, Matanzas and a few of us local guys. I was playing tres dos and guagua, and sat out a few songs to let the masters play. These are the best rumbas I have ever had the honor and pleasure of playing in. Every Thursday night, midnight to 1:30 am at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St between Thompson and Sullivan. It was a packed house, SRO tonight, they said it will go through September and October. Anyone who is in the NYC area, you should really come down one Thursday night, you will rarely encounter a rumba this good outside Cuba.

Roman Diaz' Midnight Rumba is still happening every Thursday night at the Zinc Bar 82 W 3rd St between Thompson and Sullivan. From midnight to 1:30 am. $10 cover.This is the best regular rumba I have ever had the pleasure and honor of participating in. Here are a couple of clips from YouTube, I am on tres dos in the first one and cata in the second:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmy1WQIDV3shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nHPwU5WM1Q

And tomorrow Thursday May 8, Joaquin Pozo sextet at Lincoln Center. Check out the videos in this link. Joaquin is an amazingly musical and talented conga player with chops in the same league with Giovanni and Anga and a beautiful melodic style, always in clave, not rudiment based.http://atrium.lincolncenter.org/index.p ... aquin-pozoLincoln Center David Rubinstein Atrium on Broadway between 62nd and 63rd St.7:30 pm (doors at 7), free admission!

For those of you in the NYC metropolitan area, Roman Diaz' Midnight Rumbas still going strong at the Zinc Bar every Thursday night at midnight for the last 2 and a half years. Extra special rumba New Years' Eve with 2 sets at 11 pm and 1 am. Special guests Mauricio Herrera on quinto, Emilio Valdes (son of Chucho) on drum set, Jennifer Hernandez (daughter of Horacio 'El Negro') singing and other surprise guest artists, maybe even a piano player who can play rumba.http://www.zincbar.com/calendar/2015-12-31They shut down the videos someone was doing every week, but here is one from last June.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUfrEHY2aBk